Smart Ways to Manage Your Business Finances
Ever wanted to know what tips and resources you need when running your own smart business in order to manage your finances? David Cotriss wrote eight great tips on how to help your small business handle its finances. You can read the original article here:
Find the best local credit union. Given their frequent willingness to ...
Capitalism and Social Good – The New Double Bottom Line
Before we dive in, it is important to note that my background is traditional for-profit ventures and my bachelors degree is in accounting. Last year I created a non-profit with two other people and I have been learning about non-profit accounting practices. During this time, I have learned about an emerging trend in corporate giving ...
Businesses & SXSW: There's More To Be Done Besides Partying
So I’m back from South by Southwest for the second year and I’ve found it quite rewarding. However, one thing that I’m always seeing or hearing about is from people asking what good is it for them to actually attend SXSW. Common excuses for not going is that it’s “Spring Break for Geeks“, which isn’t ...
10 Great Project Management Applications
So many projects, so little time. As small business owners, we have to wear many hats. In addition to doing what we set out to do as entrepreneurs, we’re also the sales person, the manager, customer support, and the accountant all rolled into one.
For many people the thought of doing projection planning is annoying, boring and ...
Word of Mouth Is Supposed To Be Viral, But Here's Why It's Not
One of my favorite blogs to read is Duct Tape Marketing – they have a great small business blog that has some really great articles. One that I’d like to call out features renowned marketer Seth Godin. I’ve read many of his books, including Purple Cow, Tribes, etc and now he has 10 reasons why ...
BillShrink Offers You Recommendations On How To Minimize Your Budget Spending
In the current state of the economy, one of the hard things for businesses and entrepreneurs to do is minimize their expenses and avoid any unnecessary payments to help protect their profit margins, even if it’s quite minimal. Well it seems that there’s a startup that offers us some recommendations on how to be smart ...
The Dangers of Funding Your Business with Your Retirement Accounts
With the challenges of raising capital higher than in the past, many people are looking for alternative sources of financing to bridge some money gaps or even launch a new business. Many of you know that if you withdraw retirement funds prematurely and don’t pay it back by the end of the year, you will ...
Brushing Up on Your Business Finances This Spring
As is tradition with the coming of the spring season, we’re all bent on cleaning our homes and making sure that things are as tidy and organized as possible. So too should businesses approach their finances. Isn’t it time for you to brush up on your current finance practices and make sure that they’re up-to-date? ...
Using Google Alerts To Work For Your Small Business
Have you subscribed to Google Alerts before? If not, it’s a pretty useful service – using a Google account, you sign up for these email alerts that will notify you when a piece of content is published and indexed by the search engine. So for me, I’ve created a Google Alert for my name – ...
Taking the Good & the Bad of Paid Search in 2009
In mid-2009, Forrester Research released a report entitled The Best and Worst of Paid Search in 2009. All this month, the theme we’re trying to promote is how to get your business found. One of the common parts of this is through paid search. In this report, Shar VanBoskirk examines the results of Forrester’s search ...
